Atlantic Ocean
Subtitle: the illustrated history of the ocean that changed the world
By: Martin W. Sandler ; foreword by Dennis Reinhartz
Publisher: Sterling
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781402747243
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-459) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Atlantic : the sea of darkness; title: Exploration and discovery : Europeans encounter a new world; title: Impact of the new world : European and Native American cultures collide; title: Colonization : settling a new world; title: Slavery : inhuman bondage; title: The American Revolution : cutting ties across the Atlantic; title: The impact of the American Revolution : a new model for government; title: The Industrial Revolution : mechanization and the Atlantic world; title: New ships, new commerce : a new age of Atlantic trade; title: The great tide of immigration : a historic transfer of cultures; title: The Atlantic world confirmed : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.